Word: criteria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Petrella. Students see that schools like Vassar, Lehigh, Colgate and Dickinson really care about the quality of undergraduate life, she says. Since many counselors will advise the more anxious students to apply to at least nine schools (three stretches, three matches and three safeties), students run spreadsheets rating various criteria on a scale of 1 to 10, from the food to the student-teacher ratio to rates of acceptance into grad school. And then there are the unquantifiable assets. At Davidson, townspeople and professors bake cakes for the winners of the freshman cake race and students boast that scattered around...
...Extension School, a division of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, has an open admission policy and accepts all students who meet certain criteria. The Kennedy School’s selective MPP program admits only about one in four of its applicants...
...college admissions process has long been scrutinized for its validity and fairness, given that it relies on humans making subjective judgments on subjective criteria. Crnic says that officers field a lot of questions about the legitimacy of the process...
...Brennand Mueller notes many applicants find it disquieting that the criteria changes from year to year. “What we admit one year from a given school, you could do almost the same exact things and we might not taken you the next year given the strength of the pool and how that class is coming together,” she says. “It’s not an ideal answer to people. People always want absolutes...
...provide students with some breadth in their programs, and specially designed courses intended to provide students with the skills and knowledge that they will need to become engaged and responsible citizens of the modern world. The Faculty continues to discuss and debate the required areas of distribution and the criteria for special courses in general education. In the meantime, more departmental courses have been approved to serve as alternative avenues for fulfilling Core requirements for current students. The dean’s office has also been supporting initiatives relating to student life to create a greater sense of College community...